A Wonderland Wish on Ever After Street (THE EVER AFTER STREET #3) by Jaimie Admans EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Jaimie Admans
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- Genre: contemporary romance
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‘Is it currently your birthday?’
‘No.’ The man in the smart suit who is interviewing me looks bemused
by my question.
‘Then “Happy Unbirthday” to you.’ I take a cupcake off the platter I’m
carrying and place it on the desk in front of him, poke a candle into the
icing, lean across to light it with a long-reach lighter, and breathe a sigh of
relief when the flame dances into life with no incendiary incidents. Hurrah.
That had all the potential to go horribly wrong. Open flames and me are
never a good mix.
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‘It’s from Alice in Wonderland,’ I continue when the interview board
look at me blankly. ‘The Mad Hatter and the March Hare celebrate every
day that isn’t their birthday. Why should you only get to celebrate on your
birthday itself? Isn’t life worth celebrating every day?’
Mr Hastings, the smart-suited man who’s leading the interview, flicks a
fingernail at the swirl of icing atop the cupcake and then peers down at the
bit he’s flicked off. The three interviewers are all wearing sharp suits and
have stern looks on their faces, but his is the sharpest and sternest of them
all. Their table is on a platform at the end of a big meeting room in the
council offices, and I feel like they’re all looking down at me, and I wish
that, like Alice, I had a piece of cake I could nibble to make me grow taller
and be less intimidated by their sophisticated stares.
It feels like going for
an audition, except they have a big heavy desk in front of them with lots of
important-looking papers laid out on it, and I just have a row of plastic
chairs at the other end of the room where I had to dump my bag and
wonkily balance my platter of cupcakes while I smoothed my hair down
and tried to get myself prepared for this interview.
‘That’s what I’ll do if you let me take over the tearoom on Ever After
Street. I’ll theme it after Wonderland – lots of red and black, chequerboard
flooring, card suits and clocks everywhere, and Mad-Hatter-style tables
piled high with decorative teacups and teapots. We’ll do tea parties and
Alice-themed afternoon teas where we serve dainty finger sandwiches and
cupcakes and tarts, and I’ll offer “Unbirthday parties” every day of the year.
Children and adults alike will be able to celebrate a Wonderland-style
“Unbirthday” on any day they want.’
They don’t seem very impressed.
Maybe putting on the blue Alice dress and black headband was overkill.
I thought I was being fun and quirky, but I feel more like a child,
auditioning for a part in a school play while the headmaster watches on
thinking, ‘Who is this overgrown toddler, and why does she keep swinging
around a cake stand?’
I’ve been pacing as I talk and on a particularly sharp turn, the cakes
nearly go flying off my cake stand, so I put it down on the desk in front of
them. Even their desk is severe and intimidating. If inanimate objects can
frown, it is definitely frowning at me.
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